Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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Passing the muck
Vehicle manufacturers conveniently outsource most of their polluting processes
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Ultimatum served
taking serious note of the fact that hundreds of electroplating units operating in non-conforming and residential areas at Faridabad in Haryana have failed to move out despite legal notices
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The crippling effects of TCE
tce is a nonflammable, colourless liquid. It is mainly used to remove grease from metal parts. Worldwide almost 80 90 per cent of this chemical is used to degrease metals
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Ecosan is not a second rate approach
<i>The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) related to sanitation rely on flushing systems. Uno Winblad, senior adviser, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden, tells S V Suresh Babu that the ecosan approach can do the job much better</i></<br />
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Miscalculated?
the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) has refuted some findings of the latest Greenpeace report regarding the chlorine industry. It has questioned the claims made by the report that the
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Driven to the extreme
Rampant pollution and state inaction forces farmers to attack and kill a miner in Goa
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FOLLOW UP
The Tamil Nadu government is planning to reopen all the polluting tanneries of the state, despite the Supreme Court (SC) ordering for their closure. The state labour minister, Anwar Raja, recently
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Confessional compulsory
A new international pact will force companies to disclose the pollutants they emit, factory by factory. The treaty, negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala
The Kerala Planning Board, for the first time, has taken up
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IN FOCUS
As every available nook and corner on an already burdened earth sells for sky-rocketing prices, the raging issue of crowded cities,with,popu- lation tearing at its seams, once again takes centre